Title: American Imperialism
1American Imperialism
2What is Modern Imperialism?
- The direct result of economic modernization
industrialization - Exploitation of Resources
- Establishment of Markets
- Increased investments
- Leads to
- Colonization with stable governments to safeguard
economic interests
3European Imperialism
4Why Would the U.S. Seek an Empire?
5The Story of Hawaiian Missionaries as Advance
Agents
- Congregational missionaries from New England
traveled to Hawaii in the 1820s - From 1837 to 1840,
- nearly 20,000
- Hawaiians chose
- to accept Christianity
- as their new religion.
6Alfred T. Mahan (1840-1914)
U.S.S. Maine, 1897
7Reasons for U.S. Imperialism
- Economic
- Power
- Religious
- Military
- Social Darwinism
- Trusteeship, White Mans Burden
- Jingoism
- American Exceptionalism --Advancing Democracy
- Distractions from Domestic Troubles
8U.S. Purchases and Annexations
- Alaska, 1867
- Samoa, 1889
- Midway Islands, 1867
- Hawaiian Islands, 1899
9Cubas Revolution, 1895
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11General Valeriano Weyler
12Rafael Zarza
13Yellow Journalism
Joseph Pulitzer, NY World
William Randolph Hearst, NY Journal
14The New York Journal and Frederic Remington
15Enrique Dupuy de Lome, Spanish Minister to the
U.S.
16The U.S.S. Maine entering Havana Harbor1898
17The Blowing up of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana
Harbor, 1898
18Causes for the Spanish-American War1898
- Election of William McKinley, 1896
- Cuban Revolt U.S. Sugar Tariff, 1894,
Spanish land holdings - Spanish Response General Valeriano Weyler
- Reconcentration policy
- Yellow Journalism, NY World, NY Journal
- Dupuy de Lome Letter, February, 1898
- Blowing up of the Maine, February 15, 1898
19Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
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21Consequences of the War with Spain
- 379 U.S. soldiers died from battle, 5,000 of
disease. - Cause of yellow fever discovered by Major Walter
Reed - The U.S. annexed Guam, Puerto Rico, Guantanamo
Bay, and the Philippines - Platt Amendment
- Open Door Policy
- The U.S. assumes world power status and begins
policing actions around the world.